ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Under President Obama illegal immigration was at arecord pace during his last year in office. Illegal immigration consists of the following statistics:-Nearly2 millionU.S.criminal non-citizens.

-Nearly 30%of illegal immigrant children have ties to gangs.-50% of total federal arrests were for illegal immigration-related offenses.-1 in 5 federal prisoners areforeignborn.-Illegal immigrant crime accounted for over30% of murders in many states.

-39 millionsocial security numbers have been stolen and used by illegal immigrants.

-In addition llegal immigrantion costs$116 billion($135 billiontotal minus $18.97 billion the government collects in taxes from illegal aliens) in public funds every year. Lastly U.S. immigration officials revealed a deportation backlog of 550,000illegal immigrants who were given temporary amnesty by former President Obama administration.

*​UPDATE: Illegal border crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border are at their lowest levels in nearly 50 years.

ICE provides an ongoing list of illegal immigrant apprehensions. About half of all Border Patrol agents-51%- are Hispanic or Latino.

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​​1/25/17: Within weeks of his Presidency, Donald Trump had already lifted the morale of the US Border Control which was at an all time low under the previous Obama administration. The low morale was due to the Obama administration policies which included setting up acomplaint hotline for illegal immigrants empowering them to complain about border agents. Obama policies also banned officers from wearing bulletproof vests during operations in dangerous “badlands” sections of cities for fear of offending the immigrant community. On the other hand President Trump called on the Department of Homeland Security to "create an office to serve American victims" of crimes committed by illegal immigrants. The office is called Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE).

1/25/17: President Trump signed an executive order requiring detailing the Department of Justice release quarterly numbers on how many foreign born individuals are currently incarcerated in the U.S. federal prison system.

1/25/17: President Trump keeps his word on arguably his biggest campaign mantra. He signed an executive order to begin building the mexico wall "within months’ and reiterated that Mexico WILL pay for it. How will Mexico most likely pay for the wall? With a few adjustments in America's trade deals with Mexico the current $60 billion debt owed to Mexico can be decreased which in turn can be allocated to pay for the wall. See our BORDER/WALL page for a list of reason why the wall on the American southern border is the right decision.

1/25/17: President Trump signed an executive order ending the "Catch and Release" program. Catch and release is the unofficial name for a protocol historically followed by immigration enforcement agencies in the United States (specifically, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection) where people caught for being in unlawful immigration status are released while they wait for a hearing with an immigration judge. To the shock of almost no-one, a majority of the illegal immigrants released never show up for hearing and disappear into the American communities. America has laws on the books for a reason, to protect the American people. Knowingly releasing undocumented, unvetted, illegal immigrants into American communities without any repercussions is a recipe for disaster. Cities that do not abide by this new law will lose federal funding and deservedly so.

1/25/17: President Trump signed an executive order enhancing public safety in the interior of the United States. This order seeks to identify criminal illegal aliens, triple the amount of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and empower them to enforce federal immigration laws. It will also create victims advocacy office for Americans who loved ones had been victimized by people who should have never been here in the first place. We can all agree that most of the illegal immigrants entering into America are decent people (although they are knowingly breaking US law) just looking for a better life. However illegal immigration brings a host of problems to the American homeland, including crime, taking jobs from Americans, stress on the education system and more. America has many problems of its own without importing the many problems that come with illegal immigration. Coming to America legally should be the only way that should be acceptable.

​3/17/17: The U.S. Justice Department is developing plans to temporarily reassignimmigration judges from around the country to 12 cities to speed up deportations of illegal immigrants who have been charged with crimes.

​4/13/17: The cartel member suspected of shooting and killing Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in 2010 with a gun supplied by the U.S. government was finally arrested in Mexico. The agent's death exposed the Obama adminsitration's failed Operation Fast and Furious scandal, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) operation in which the federal government allowed criminals to buy guns in Phoenix-area shops with the intention of tracking them once they made their way into Mexico. This was a big victory for the Trump administration who has steadily claimed he would secure the Mexico-US Southern border.

4/13/17: President Trump keeping true to his word, has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to return 4,000 Somali illegal immigrants back to their homeland.

​6/15/17: Presiden Trump's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescindedPresident Obama's DAPA policy that would have protected illegal immigrant parents. DHS Secretary John Kelly made the decision to revoke the policy because "there is no credible path forward to litigate the currently enjoined policy" due to its current entanglement in the courts.

​6/16/17: President Trump will not immediately eliminate protections for the so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as small children, according to new memorandums issued by the administration.

7/3/17: The Trump administration has begun arresting parents and others who hire smugglers to bring children into the U.S., in an effort to break up human-trafficking operations. The government says the effort aims to break up human smuggling operations, including arresting people who pay coyotes to get children across the U.S. border. ICE stated: "The sponsors who have placed children directly into harm’s way by entrusting them to violent criminal organizations will be held accountable.”

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7/17/17: Naional Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd said "The significant downturn in the number of illegal border crossers between the U.S. and Mexico is nothing short of miraculous," ​"There's a vibe, there's an energy in the Border Patrol that's never been there before in 20 years that I've been in the patrol," Judd added.

​8/5/17: The Department Of Homeland Security announced it would use its power to go around environmental and other laws to help expedite construction in the San Diego area.

​8/25/17: The United States stopped issuing visas to citizens from four countries that it says aren’t accepting deported citizens. The list includes three African countries — Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone — as well as Cambodia. The U.S. has suspended visas twice before under previous administrations in efforts to push deportations forward. The Department of Homeland Security notified the Department of State that the four countriesare refusing to accept or are unreasonably delaying the acceptance of nationals deemed to be in the United States illegally, a violation of section 243(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

​9/4/17: Keeping one of his many campaign promises, President Trump decided to end the controversial DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program. Trump also decided to delay enforcement and give Congress 6 months to come up with an alternative plan. The program which was founded by President Obama in 2012 protected an estimated 800,000 illegal immigrants, who came to the United States as children, from deportation. DACA also provided them with work authorizations and access to Social Security and other government benefits. Here is a list of reasons why we believe President Trump made the right decision:
​1: DACA is an illegal program that violates the core constitutional principles. By unilaterally issuing protections from deportation President Obama effectively rewrote immigration law. The simple fact is that only Congress can make and change laws. In fact, a year before President Obama created DACA he stated "With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that’s just not the case, because there are laws on the books that Congress has passed. . . . The executive branch’s job is to enforce and implement those laws. . . . There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as President. " But President Obama and his lawyers found a way around this constitutional barrier. DACA, they said, doesn't give permanent legal residency to illegal aliens. It merely makes them a very, very low priority for deportation. Such a low priority, in fact, that all of the estimated 800,000 illegal immigrants who signed up for the program would receive an official card instructing Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to deport them unless they committed multiple criminal offenses.
2: America is a sovereign nation has a right to decide who is allowed into the country. Illegal immigrants do not have the right or authority to dictate to America how and when they decide to illegally enter the United States.
3: DACA is the pinnacle of no rule of law. Not only does it protect illegal immigrants from deportation, it provides benefits that by law are reserved for American citizens and legal immigrants. Why bother going through the process of coming to the U.S. legally if you can acquire many of the same benefits by coming illegally? Why have a country border at all?
​4: There were ten U.S. statesthat were ready to take legal action. The 10-state coalition gave the Trump administration until September 5 2017 to rescind DACA and not renew or issue any new DACA permits in the future — the coalition would have moved forward with its lawsuit against the program.
5: DACA hurts the low skilled American workers by providing job opportunity to 800,000 illegal immigrants instead. How is that fair to Americans who are looking for work to just survive? In the first quarter of 2017, nearly four in ten native-born 18 to 29-year olds without college degrees were either unemployed or not in the labor force.
6: President Trump was fair with his decision. He has given Congress 6 months to come up with an alternative and legal plan which is technically and legally the right way to enforce any new immigration laws. In fact President Obama's plan was both unfair (and unconstitutional) to the DACA immigrants because he allowed their future to be uncertain by clearly stating that his DACA program was "only temporary".

​10/4/17: Trump's U.S. State Department stopped issuing certain kinds of visas to some citizens of Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone because the nations are not taking back their citizens the United States wants to deport. The new policies, laid out in State Department cables are the latest example of U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to crack down on immigrants who are in the United States illegally.

10/6/17: The House Homeland Security Committee approved a border security bill that includes $10 billion for a border wall. The Border Security for America Act, proposed by committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), was passed on a party-line 18-12 vote.

​10/26/17: The U.S. government announced that prototypes for President Donald Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico have been completed and will be subjected to punishment to test their mettle — by workers wielding sledgehammers, torches, pickaxes and battery-operated tools.

4/6/18: Following up on his executive oder back in Jan 2017, Donald Trump signed a memorandum ordering the end of a policy, known as “catch and release,” in which illegal immigrants are released from detention while awaiting a court hearing on their status.

​4/7/18: The Justice Department announced that it is implementing a “zero-tolerance” policy for prosecuting those attempting to enter the U.S. illegally.

4/9/18: President Trump sends the National Guard to the Southern border.

​5/29/18: The Trump administration has shut down an Obama-era loophole that let immigrants who otherwise could not legally enter the U.S. claim a free pass by saying they were “entrepreneurs.”

6/20/18: President Trump signed an executive order to keep detained illegal immigrant families together. This was a practice going as far as back to at least the previous Obama administration

7/2/18: ICE rescued 904 children from being raped and molested in the fiscal year 2017.

7/6/18: The Trump administration has expanded the government’s deportation powers, issuing guidelines urging officers at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to begin the removal process for immigrants who use fraudulent documents or who illegally took government benefits.

7/13/18: DNA testing proved many of the adults bringing children illegally across the border were not their parents or relatives. In fact about 1-in-5 illegal alien adults crossing the United States-Mexico border with toddlers under the age of five are either criminals, not the child’s parent, or present some other danger to the child.

7/17/18: The National Guard's deployment to the southwest border in mid-April by President Trump has led to 10,805 "deportable alien arrests" of people who illegally entered the United States from Mexico.

9/9/18: The Trump administration is denying passports to those it suspects of having fraudulent birth certificates at an increasing rate.

11/3/18: Trump announced he will send send up to 15,000 US troops to the border as large illegal migrant caravans travel toward the US-Mexico border.

11/9/18: Trump signed a proclamation barring migrants who cross the U.S. border with Mexico illegally from receiving asylum in the United States.. Trump's proclamation does not apply to unaccompanied alien children.

11/13/18: U.S. military lays barbed wire at border as migrant caravan draws closer.

11/18/19: Border officials have added razor wire to the top and bottom of the fence near Border Field State Park that divides San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico.

2/25/19: The Pentagon deployed 1,000 more troops to the southern border next week. The additional forces will bring the total to nearly 6,000 active-duty and National Guard personnel deployed in support of the Department of Homeland Security at the border with Mexico.

3/20/19: The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration by deciding federal officials can detain non-citizen immigrants at any time for possible deportation after they have served their time in the U.S. for other crimes. The 5-4 decision reversed the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which said officials have to detain these immigrants immediately or they are exempt from ever being detained.